How many pairs of shoes do you own?

As long as you keep your shoes clean and brushed, even one pair is enough.

 

Not really unless you want to see me walking around in shin-high rubber boots everywhere.

 

Hahaha. Why not? I think it was deep-ecologist Pentti Linkola who said something like "the only good invention the last 1000 years is the rubber boot."

 

Mainly because they irritate my shins

I have this routine about putting shoes out to pasture. Like I have my pretty tennis shoes, my okay tennis shoes, and the "Why haven't you thrown those away" pair that started off as the pretty ones and got demoted through the ranks. I have two pairs of work boots, a pair of hiking boots, and the rubber boots. I have house shoes I might wear once a month at most, and then I have an assortment of black and brown dress shoes in various styles. I am outside a lot so it is nice to have plenty of spare options, especially if it is wet.

 

I have a pair of old sneakers I wear when I go to my friend who has a drewling, shoe-grabbing dog. I should throw them away, but they fill an important function.

 

Oh yeah, reminds me of another benefit of having multiple pairs. I used to have a dog that would crap in my shoes if she couldn't hold it anymore and I didn't take her out. She would back her behind right up to them and crap right in them. More than once, I got an unwelcome surprise when I stuck my foot in.

 

One can never have too many shoes.

 

3

Hiking boots, running shoes, work shoes.

Actually I might have my cholorframs still in a closet somewhere.

So possibly 4.

 

Ewww but

 

What on earth are "house shoes"? That's a term I haven't heard of before. Are they slippers or just what you call shoes that you only wear inside?

 

There are some REALLY cute rubber rain boots out there! I should get me a pair!

 

Ugh. I cannot stand rubber-boots. Probably is psychological or something; it is that rebellious little 4 year old still living inside me, remembering when those darn teachers at kindergarten forced me to wear them when it was raining.

 

Those stupid shoes with the fur lining. Cal them what you like

 

I think I know what you're talking about. They look like moccasins. I've just never heard of house shoes before and was curious.

 

I hate them too but they are a necessity for me. I have a stream running through my property that converges with another stream at one of the corners. If I do not keep it cleaned out, I end up with a river running 10 feet from my house through the yard when we have heavy rains. For instance at this very moment, there is a giant deed tree that fell along a neighboring property laying across that convergence point. When that thing rolls into the stream, probably during a storm, I will be out trying to get it out because it will wash out the corner of my property if I don't. I haven't done it yet because 1) it isn't on my land until it hits the stream bed and 2) the thing is covered in poison oak so I am hoping it will stay where it is until winter. Just past the convergence point, there is a 90° turn in the stream so it is inclined to come out of the banks there anyway even when there is no tree clogging it up.

 

Lol! Do you hate umbrellas too?

 

We have always called them house shoes. May be a regional thing. Slippers is such an ambiguous term, I never use it. For instance, my dad called his dress shoes slippers; my mom called flats slippers; some people call house shoes slippers.

 

When it gets bad enough for me to want to use an umbrella, it is usually too windy for me to actually use an umbrella.

 

No. Umbrellas are badass. I own a couple of them and have lost countless and some have broken in the wind.

They are still cool, especially if they are black.

 

4. 1 pair work boots, one pair of vans for cruising around, one pair of Sandles for boating, and a pair of insulated Danners for elk hunting in the high county. I think women owning lots of shoes is fine. My peeve is women that paint their toenails.

 

two pair of sandals
two pair of slip on's
one pair leather gym shoes
one pair of rubber shower sandals
one pair moccasin house shoes
one pair of cruddy slip on's for mud work

 

I used to have a really cool umbrella when I was little that was like a bubble and it was clear so you could see through it. It was much better than some other umbrellas because it kept me dry even with wind driven rain. I've never seen one like that since!

 

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Pedant!

 

I've never owned an umbrella that I didn't lose!